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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
Maurice Sendak
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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